In the MoneyAs we all know, you don't have to spend a lot of money to make money in the money-management business. The biggest costs are keeping systems up to date and hiring analysts to cover global markets farther and farther from home. But assets under management can grow significantly without companies having to spend more to manage them, leading to impressive profit margins.

Who, What, Where, When and HowThe trend toward more sophisticated trading styles, dark pools of liquidity and the algorithms continuing to expand at a rapid rate, one has to ask. What are traders and portfolio managers to do with their order flow?

CDS AutomationWith the average daily trade volume of credit derivatives doubling since 2004, according to a new report from Celent, firms still are shopping for trading technology, particularly back-office processing automation to handle the huge increase in their credit derivatives business.